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What Is Going To Happen In 2021

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Happy 2021. It helps me invest and advise the companies we are invested in. Like our investing, I will get some of these right and some wrong. The Covid Pandemic will end in the developed world in 2021. The second half of 2021 will be marked by two conflicting trends. We will see it accelerate in 2021.

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. growth from 2020 to 2021. Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Importantly, the traditional accelerator model has enjoyed the fruits of these potential paradigm shifts. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x

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How Up.Labs threads the needle between corporate venture capital and accelerators

TechCrunch

One element of the 2021 venture capital apotheosis that doesn’t get enough attention is corporate venture capital. Accelerators also had a pretty good run through 2021: Recall that Y Combinator cohort sizes reached new records and the group boosted the amount of capital that it invested in batch companies.

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African tech took center stage in 2021

TechCrunch

But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down. Entering 2021, the bullishness of African tech stakeholders returned — and why not? AfricArena, a tech ecosystem accelerator, pegged deals to close between $2.25

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Co-Creation Hub’s edtech accelerator puts $15M towards African startups

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Africa’s largest innovation hub Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), is launching a $15 million accelerator program, dubbed The Edtech Fellowship Program, to back and support 72 startups across Nigeria and Kenya over the next three years, TechCrunch has learned. One, the edtech space is highly regulated, more than the casual tech observer might think.

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SaaS leaders: Use customer insights to accelerate growth during a downturn

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Caroline Hogan Contributor Share on Twitter Caroline Hogan is senior director of vendor marketing at Gartner Digital Markets , where she helps software providers accelerate growth. But businesses are changing where, how and why they invest in technology.

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NeuReality lands $35M to bring AI accelerator chips to market

TechCrunch

Inferencing chips accelerate the AI inferencing process, which is where AI systems generate outputs (e.g., “Most companies that can leverage AI don’t have the funds nor the huge R&D that Amazon, Meta and other huge companies investing in AI have. . The growing demand for AI, particularly generative AI (i.e.,